On Mon, 7 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote:
> When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command produces
> following output:
>
> UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
> ...
> ...
> marek 5788 5765 12 50526 73088 0 09:02 ? 00:13:42
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
> marek 5869 5788 0 0 0 0 09:02 ? 00:00:00
> [netstat] <defunct>
>
> Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I close
> firefox, the zombie disappears too.
> Could someone explain me how to get rid of it?
IIRC, I first noticed this in 1997, running Netscape 4 on HP/UX. It's
weird-looking, but it doesn't do anything bad.
-Daniel
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